Alice Kahn Ladas papers, 1943-2013.
Collection Number: 7728
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Alice Kahn Ladas papers, 1943-2013.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
7728
Abstract:
Alice Kahn Ladas speeches and articles, correspondence, memos, pamphlets, and clippings.
Creator:
Ladas, Alice Kahn.
Quanitities:
.2 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
A sexual liberation activist who was instrumental in establishing Lamaze education
in the U.S. and promoting breastfeeding and who published a NEW YORK TIMES bestseller,
"The G Spot and Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality," with Beverly Whipple and
John D. Perry in 1982.
Alice Kahn Ladas speeches and articles, correspondence, memos, pamphlets, and clippings.
Includes a 1943 memo detailing her reasons for wanting an internship with the Fair
Employment Practices Commission and with a U.S. Congressperson, a 1945 letter of thanks
from employees of the U.S. Patent Office for her assistance getting their positions
upgraded, a 1951 letter from Eva Reich of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, notes about
a meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt, and a 1991 letter to friends. Pamphlets and clippings
contain her writing on breast feeding, sexuality and women's liberation, and bioenergetic
analysis. Included is the program from a speech on "The Sexual Revolution: Phase Two"
given March 14, 2004 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a society she has
been involved with since childhood.
Also, an issue of Balanced Living containing an article by Alice Hammarth, "Breast
Feeding and Bottle Feeding Compared" (October 1960); and an issue of The USA Body
Psychotherapy Journal containing an article by Alice Kahn Ladas, "An Appreciation
of Alexander Lowen" (2008).
Collecting program: Human Sexuality Collection
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Alice Kahn Ladas papers, #7728. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
La Leche League International
Subjects:
Sex.
G spot.
Female orgasm.
Breastfeeding.
Bioenergetics.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
|
Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Photo, Alice Kahn Ladas
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence, memos
|
1943-2013 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
News stories about Alice Kahn Ladas
|
1972, 1987 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
NYICOP brochure
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Writings on breastfeeding
|
1960-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Writings on La Leche League
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
"Women and Bioenergetic Analysis," "Using Goals in Bioenergetic Analysis"
|
1981, 1979 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
"Working With the Body"
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
"The G Spot Revisited"
|
1985 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Writings on orgasm and sexual liberation
|
2004, undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
"Relating Exercises"
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 12-15 |
Writings, articles and speeches
|
1976-2008 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Issue of Balanced Living with article by Alice Hammarth, "Breast Feeding and Bottle
Feeding Compared"
|
1960 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Issue of The USA Body Psychotherapy Journal with article by Alice Kahn Ladas, "An
Appreciation of Alexander Lowen"
|
2008 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Childhood portrait of Alice
|
1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Preface of Alice's honors thesis in government, Smith College
|
1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
HIV and breastfeeding
|
1998, 1999 |